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• The Epic Pass is the only worldwide unlimited, unrestricted season pass to offer a $49 down payment, with the remainder due in the fall.
• Sunday, April 15 is the last chance to get the added benefits of 12 discounted lift tickets for family and friends.
• The Epic Pass features access to 64 mountain resorts in eight countries and 11 states and provinces, including Telluride, Crested Butte, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies and Hakuba Valley, Japan.

Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today introduced Emma, your Epic Mountain Assistant, the world’s first digital mountain assistant to help guide guests while on their ski and snowboard vacation at nine of the Company’s resorts. Emma is an interactive mountain assistant who uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to answer a wide range of guests’ questions about their ski vacation. Emma will debut for the 2018-19 winter season at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in Tahoe; and Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada.

• Skiers and Snowboarders can access the Best of Tahoe resorts seven days a week at an exceptional value of $569.
• Tahoe Local Pass includes skiing and snowboarding at Park City in Utah, the largest resort in the U.S., and Colorado’s Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin.
• Epic Local Pass is perfect for Tahoe Skiers planning to chase the snow worldwide, including access to Whistler Blackcomb plus five total consecutive days of skiing and snowboarding at Hakuba Valley’s nine ski resorts in Japan

• Skiers and Snowboarders can access the Best of Tahoe resorts seven days a week at an exceptional value of $569.
• Tahoe Local Pass includes skiing and snowboarding at Park City in Utah, the largest resort in the U.S., and Colorado’s Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin.
• Epic Local Pass is perfect for Tahoe Skiers planning to chase the snow worldwide, including access to Whistler Blackcomb plus five total consecutive days of skiing and snowboarding at Hakuba Valley’s nine ski resorts in Japan

United States. Canada. Australia. Japan. France. Switzerland. Italy. Austria. No other season pass gives skiers and snowboarders access to so many celebrated resorts around the world than the Epic Pass, including unlimited, unrestricted access to 15 mountain resorts and limited access to 46 more. Priced at $899 for the 2018-19 winter season, the Epic Pass remains unmatched in the mountain resort industry for the variety and value it offers skiers and snowboarders.

Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today announced a long-term alliance with one of Japan’s largest and most renowned mountain resort regions —Hakuba Valley, located in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture at the base of Japan’s Northern Alps and host to the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, the Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass and Epic Australia Pass will offer five consecutive complimentary days with no blackout dates at the nine ski resorts that comprise Hakuba Valley. It brings the Epic Pass total to 55 mountain resorts in eight countries, significantly more than any other season pass in the world.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Epic Pass, 2018, Vail Resorts is honoring the epic service of the Company’s founders and men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, Canadian Armed Forces and Australian Defence Force, with the introduction of a special new USD$99 Military Epic Pass. Also, for every 2018-19 Vail Resorts season pass sold, the Company will donate USD$1 to Wounded Warrior Project®. Based on 2017-18 pass sales, the donation would exceed USD$750,000.

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